Question 1

Which is an accurate comparison of the Ottoman,Mughal,and Ming Chinese leaders during this period?

Accepted Answer

A)  None benefited substantially from the foreign commerce in which their merchants engaged. 
B)  All saw increased agricultural yields in the seventeenth century. 
C)  None supported the expansion of naval power. 
D)  All were strengthened by the influx of silver from the Americas. 
A)  None benefited substantially from the foreign commerce in which their merchants engaged. 
B)  All saw increased agricultural yields in the seventeenth century. 
C)  None supported the expansion of naval power. 
D)  All were strengthened by the influx of silver from the Americas.

Question 2

For what reason did the Dutch kill or enslave nearly the entire population of the Banda Islands?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Dutch wanted to construct a fort to protect themselves from the Spaniards in Manila. 
B)  The Dutch wanted revenge after the traditional chiefs of Banda killed Dutch diplomats. 
C)  The Dutch wanted to buy nutmeg at a low price in the Banda Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe. 
D)  The Dutch wanted to intimidate the inhabitants of the nearby Maluku islands into selling their silk only to the Dutch. 
A)  The Dutch wanted to construct a fort to protect themselves from the Spaniards in Manila. 
B)  The Dutch wanted revenge after the traditional chiefs of Banda killed Dutch diplomats. 
C)  The Dutch wanted to buy nutmeg at a low price in the Banda Islands and sell nutmeg at many times that price in Europe. 
D)  The Dutch wanted to intimidate the inhabitants of the nearby Maluku islands into selling their silk only to the Dutch.

Question 3

Which of the following undermined both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires?

Accepted Answer

A)  The inability to placate diverse ethnic groups led to warfare,which undermined their political systems. 
B)  The influx of silver from the Americas created inflation,which undermined their economic autonomy. 
C)  The territorial expansion of Russia took provinces from both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires. 
D)  Religious strife within Islam sapped the government and social systems of both the Ottomans and Mughals. 
A)  The inability to placate diverse ethnic groups led to warfare,which undermined their political systems. 
B)  The influx of silver from the Americas created inflation,which undermined their economic autonomy. 
C)  The territorial expansion of Russia took provinces from both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires. 
D)  Religious strife within Islam sapped the government and social systems of both the Ottomans and Mughals.

Question 4

By the nineteenth century,about as many African slaves as Europeans had migrated to the Americas.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another?

Accepted Answer

A)  Capitalism 
B)  Absolutism 
C)  Monetarism 
D)  Mercantilism 
A)  Capitalism 
B)  Absolutism 
C)  Monetarism 
D)  Mercantilism

Which is an accurate comparison of the Ottoman,Mughal,and Ming Chinese leaders during this period?

For what reason did the Dutch kill or enslave nearly the entire population of the Banda Islands?

Which of the following undermined both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires?

By the nineteenth century,about as many African slaves as Europeans had migrated to the Americas.

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another?

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Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World 350-100 Bce

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Exam 13: Worlds Entangled 1600-1750

Which is an accurate comparison of the Ottoman,Mughal,and Ming Chinese leaders during this period?

For what reason did the Dutch kill or enslave nearly the entire population of the Banda Islands?

Which of the following undermined both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires?

By the nineteenth century,about as many African slaves as Europeans had migrated to the Americas.

What was the economic philosophy called that assumed that the world's wealth was fixed and one country could only increase its wealth at the expense of another?

Becoming Human

Rivers,cities,and First States 3500-2000 Bce

Nomads,territorial States,and Microsocieties 2000-1200 Bce

First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia 1250-325 Bce

Worlds Turned Inside Out 1000-350 Bce

Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World 350-100 Bce

Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome 300 Bce-300 Ce

The Rise of Universalizing Religions 300-600 Ce

New Empires and Common Cultures 600-1000 Ce

Becoming the World 1000-1300 Ce

Crisis and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1500

Contact,commerce,and Colonization 1450-1600

Cultures of Splendor and Power 1500-1780

Reordering the World 1750-1850

Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century

Nations and Empires 1850-1914

An Unsettled World 1890-1914

Of Masses and Visions of the Modern 1910-1939

The Three-World Order 1940-1975

Globalization 1970-2000

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